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Ukraine faces pressure for a quick resolution — but a Russian ground victory isn't assured
NBC News ^ | November 24, 2025 | Alexander Smith

Posted on 11/24/2025 11:46:43 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands

The pressure building on Ukraine is not just diplomatic.

While President Donald Trump pushes for a quick resolution, the churning mud of the battlefield has produced only slow and painstaking gains for the Kremlin during the four years since its full-scale invasion.

From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk to Zaporizhzhia in the south and the northern region of Kharkiv, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances.

...But battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest.

Russia's gains are slow and incremental, won at a heavy cost against Kyiv’s overstretched army, according to these mostly Western observers, who see Moscow as overstating its position for diplomatic gain in negotiations with Washington.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: proxywar; russia; ukraine; ukrainetruth; ukriane; welfarewar
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1 posted on 11/24/2025 11:46:43 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Ukraine is being gaslit into surrendering.


2 posted on 11/24/2025 11:49:15 AM PST by libh8er
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Yes, the more territory Russia takes and the more Ukraine gets pummeled at the front and the more Ukraine infrastructure is destroyed in its cities - the closer Russia is to losing.....

or something.


3 posted on 11/24/2025 11:50:40 AM PST by PGR88
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More dead Russians.

More dead North Koreans.

More dead Chechens.

More destroyed Russian military equipment.

Works for me.


4 posted on 11/24/2025 11:54:51 AM PST by MplsSteve
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5 posted on 11/24/2025 11:55:42 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: MplsSteve

Here we have Trump working his azz off for Peace and you wheel out a cry for endless war and death. What’s wrong with you?


6 posted on 11/24/2025 11:57:48 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: PGR88

Boy the rats, the MSM and the EU weenies sure do not want this stupid war to end.


7 posted on 11/24/2025 12:00:14 PM PST by gibsonguy
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“Here we have Trump working his azz off for Peace and you wheel out a cry for endless war and death. What’s wrong with you?”

Amusing take from a pro-Putin butt licker.

When true peace comes, I’ll be for it. But until then, let’s see to it that the aggressor of this war continues to pay for it in blood and money.


8 posted on 11/24/2025 12:01:20 PM PST by MplsSteve
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Amusing take from a pro-Putin butt licker.

Wow, your descent into hate take long. With your kind of energy maybe you can find your way to the front line?

9 posted on 11/24/2025 12:04:58 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: MplsSteve

You forgot “more dead Ukrainians.”

But That’s OK. They should be honored to die for Davos, Brussels, London, and the New World Order


10 posted on 11/24/2025 12:07:27 PM PST by PGR88
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To: libh8er

Ukraine is being gaslit into surrendering.
———-
Ukraine is being ground into dirt. They have flatlined in every measurable sector.


11 posted on 11/24/2025 12:10:10 PM PST by delta7
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Ukraine is being gaslit into surrendering.

You are so right! The world, especially China, needs as many unattached females as it can get, and we need to keep up the appearance that every last Ukrainian male could possibly make that difference, as long as they are out there on that battlefield.

We need all of them to die. I am completely with you and your tactic!

12 posted on 11/24/2025 12:13:54 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

Fight to the last Ukie Male.
That will teach Pooty-Poo a lesson. LOL


13 posted on 11/24/2025 12:18:18 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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“Moscow as overstating its position for diplomatic gain in negotiations with Washington”

I’m sure the Russians are being watched closely by the US government.


14 posted on 11/24/2025 12:21:19 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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“Gaza’s health ministry has reported more than 300 deaths in Israeli strikes since the ceasefire”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/23/gaza-hospitals-essential-supplies-aid-israeli-airstrikes


15 posted on 11/24/2025 12:22:07 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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“When true peace comes, I’ll be for it. But until then, let’s see to it that the
aggressor of this war continues to pay for it in blood and money.”

Easy for you to say.
Its’s not your blood or money.
You Zeepers LOVE War and Bloodshed.
As long as it is not YOUR or your families blood being shed.


16 posted on 11/24/2025 12:22:11 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRobr 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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In January this war will exceed in duration Russia’s conflict with Nazi Germany. So for being ground into dirt the Ukies have persevered. Are their losses as great as North Vietnam’s? And North Viet Nam won.


17 posted on 11/24/2025 12:37:28 PM PST by xkaydet65
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Tulsi Gabbard’s satellites make this decision on battlefield status.

No other source of information can be believed. Pretty clearly Trump knows this.


18 posted on 11/24/2025 12:47:40 PM PST by Owen
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To: libh8er

Yep


19 posted on 11/24/2025 1:00:17 PM PST by sauropod
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To: Brian Griffin

NBC does not understand that this is a war of attrition, and Ukraine has very few men left to fight.


20 posted on 11/24/2025 1:37:31 PM PST by phil00071
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